Outlining the danger of Social Media

Talking about articles and in this case more current than the one from the Economist.

I found this article at the ABC News site writen by Andrew Keen, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and author. He just published a book called “The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture,”. The book outlines the dangers of citizen media (Social media), Web 2.0.

European Search Personality of the year 2014, Kristján Már Hauksson, is the Co-Founder and COO of SMFB Engine, based in Oslo, Norway.
This newfound digital activation/marketing agency works closely with the award winning creative agency, SMFB, in making sure that each idea has the digital presence to make it fly. Kristján is a publish author on the topic Internet Marketing and Search Engine Marketing.

I do have a huge feeling that it feels like a bubble. Especially when I am reading Mashable! and seeing all of the huge investments being made into companies with little if no profit margins.

However, the big difference is between the dot com bubble and the social net is people. And people have money in their pocket. People are also smarter consumers and use many peer advice articles like they once used side by side comparison.

I think there is a future for Web 2.0, but one that needs to be scrutinized by the numbers that it will ultimately post each quarter.

Jerard thanks for your post I must say agree and at least it is going to be fun watching the development of social media in the near future and in my case I am going to have a close eye on the evolution of social search. Having said that and just because I have the opportunity I am going to plug – I will be a facilitator at the internet marketing conference and expo Ad-tech London next month, drop by if you have a chance :-)